A romp through the insanity patch!

Hip hip, HOORAY!
Hip hip, HOORAY!
Hip hip, HOORAY!

In a few hours, I'll be speeding off on my way to see RENT for the second time on stage. WHOO!! I'm even wearing my new red flowy cleavage shirt for the occasion! I imagine we'll get back pretty late tonight, but I had to come back to campus tonight. I'm on break duty, and Jo was lovely enough to hold the phone for me so I could go *praises Jo*

For your viewing pleasure, a rare moment of actual interest in Prehistoric to Medieval Art History. A nice Etruscan statue with an unfortunate resemblance...and he shall henceforth be known as George W. Bush's smarter half.

In other news, the RD gave us all beta-fishies as pets at the beginning of the year, and she has several fishies of her own. But she's gone for the break, so she asked if I'd take care of them for her since I'm going to be here on duty all weekend. I said sure, so that's three fish hanging out in the Meadow. Then jewelsybear1017 asked if I'd take care of Finn for her.

To summarize, I'm taking care of my own beta-fishie (*pets Kaito*) along with Mandy's, Jewels', Miriam's, Kristin's, and Lorena's. That equals nine, with such illustrious names as Refrigerator, Magnet, Blender, Ernie, Lola, Snape, and Finneas Betamax Fishington the First. That last one was Jewelsy's, by the way =P Most of them are living down in the Meadow (which is sort of our RA office), so I can feed them when I do my rounds--break duty involves doing rounds through the building twice a day.

I mentioned it to thekellylynn, and she said it was a fishie slumber party!

... *clings* Kelly, I miss having you around the corner from meeeee...

...and Lorena just told me to tell her if her fish Snape misbehaves or bites his friends *dies*

Well, I'm done with my tests. Whee!! Life is...all right, I s'pose.

That Conducting final was a JOKE! Honestly, that was ridiculous. If I hadn't had to wait to do my individual conducting, singing, and playing, I would have been outta there in probably fifteen minutes or less. It was insanely easy, my second favorite kind of final--my favorite is the non-existent final, of course ^___^

Tomorrow, I have my Creative Writing final...which is "walk in, get my short story, get my portfolio, get my compilation, say goodbye, walk out." That's my favorite kind of final, right there *grin* Then I get to hang out in the main lounge for check-outs, skip out for traffic duty at one, go to a quick choir rehearsal at two, and then back to the dorm. We're there until six, and then...MY LAST DUTY NIGHT OF THE SEMESTER!!!

Got my grade back on my big portfolio piece for Classroom Management. I GOT AN A!! Whew...and I saw on Connected Learning that I got a 91% on the final, which is awesome--that was the one I nearly missed because my alarm clock died. There was only one question that I was completely blank on, so I must have BS-ed something right!

Otherwise...yeah. The next chapter of The New World, aka "the CCS fic I update about once every six months because I refuse to just let it die, dammit" is nearing completion. I got going on it, and the first five pages really wrote themselves. Now I just have to finish and post it. Not as long as the last chapter (sorry, no twenty-pagers this time around), but it's a chapter!

Time to curl up in bed. YAY! Catch y'all later ^_^

So I'm hanging out with thekellylynn and "working" on various things that are due tomorrow. Things like my bulletin board...which is totally getting done, I swear...what, you doubt me?

We had a really great laugh about this one LJ fic comm, called 30_rooms simply because we think it is a HILARIOUS challenge. Basically, there are thirty themes...one for each room in a love hotel. I read the list out loud to her, just for shi'ites and giggles. Here are our favorites:

( 30 Rooms That Makes Us Laugh... )

They're all funny, but those were our favorites. And I have never seen Kelly look so horrified as she did when I commented on the Hello Kitty room *sniggers evilly*

Anyway, fyliwionvilyaer has a birthday coming up. And I miiiiiiiiight have something up my sleeve for her in terms of present-age...like a fic or something...not saying I do for sure, but ya never know. I mean, something might pop up and surprise everyone...

...cue halo!! *grins beneath sparkly halo*

As I've said in a couple of prior entries, there's never really a dull moment in RA-dom. The events of last night-through-this morning are a prime example. Let me stell you the tory...

On breaks, there's always an RA on duty. I've got the first two days of this break--which means I get to go home tomorrow afternoon. Yayness! But anyway, so I've got the duty phone and a short list of stuff that needs to get done. We sometimes call it 'babysitting the building.'

Well, last night I did my rounds like usual--we just turn off lights, check bathrooms, check fire extinguishers...you get the idea. Well, Fridays are party nights, so rounds happen at ten, midnight, and two AM. One of my friends has been on a trip in Egypt for the last couple weeks, and she stopped by at one-thirty to say hi. It was great to see her again, and she had tons of stories.

Hung with her for half an hour, then did rounds. Crawled into bed and put my headphones on for about twenty mintes--that's my ritual. When I'm getting ready to go to bed, the headphones go on and I listen to music for a while. It just helps me unwind and relax. I finally dozed off at about two-thirty, three-ish in the morning.

Imagine my surprise when I wake up to a knock on my door. I was really kind of confused, because I knew we weren't meeting until eleven for brunch and room checks, but it was still totally dark outside. The sun usually starts coming up around seven, seven-thirty-ish at this time of year. So I crawl out of bed and stumble to the door, wondering if somebody got locked out of their room or something. Imagine my surprise when it's my supervisor, Gretchen. She's the RD here. I'm even more surprised to see that she's holding a candle--a direct policy violation (Gods, did that sound as nerdy as I thought it did? Probably...).

She then informs me that the power is out. I glance over at my microwave clock, and sure enough, it's totally off. So she asks me if I have my flashlight (part of our 'RA kit' of sorts), because we needed to do rounds through the building. With the power out, the fire alarms are off, so we have to act as the fire alarms by continually walking through the very dark, very quiet, very creepy building to make sure everything's as it should be.

We had some massively strong winds overnight--they started last night. There were gusts that reached sixty miles per hour. Welcome to Iowa winters. Anyway, that's what did it--something got blown over.

So let's recap: I was up 'till two-thirty AM doing rounds and RA stuff. I then was woken up at SIX AM to wander the building in search of fires. I know it was six AM because I grabbed the duty phone on the way out, and it has the time on the display screen. Also, I am not a morning person. So we walked around the building about five times, then sat in the main lounge and watched the sun start to rise. Then we went down and checked the boiler room (I'd like to take this opportunity to say how much I really don't like the dark and stuff...)

But finally, Gretch sent me back to my room, saying that she'd get one of the other RAs to do rounds every hour (since the sun had come up, we only needed them once an hour). So I crawled back into bed at about a quarter past seven...and was awakened again at ten by my alarm. We were meeting at eleven for brunch.

I rolled over and went back to sleep. Woke up at five to eleven because someone knocked on my door. Didn't bother getting dressed or anything--just pulled on a trusty sweatshirt and wandered down for food. All four of us RA's still in the building, plus Gretchen, had ended up getting woken up to do a stint on fire-watch, so we were all fairly tired.

Room checks went blessedly fast, and now it's naptime for me! So yeah, that was my night. I swear, one time we had to do closing stuff, we had a fire alarm go off. It was about ten degrees outside, and I wasn't wearing shoes. That was soooooooooo [NOT] fun. This time, the power goes out for five hours.

Never a dull moment...

Goodnight!
~ Candy-chan ^_^